Trump's Attorney General Pick Grilled on Capitol Hill

Wednesday, 11 January 2017The U.S. senator picked to be Donald Trump's attorney general told his colleagues Tuesday that as a Southerner he saw racial discrimination and he knows it's wrong. Senator Jeff Sessions, once denied a federal judgeship over allegations of a racist past, was grilled by senators on his conservative views, some of which conflict with established law or the policies of the outgoing Obama administration. VOA's Michael Bowman reports.

Following Donald Trump’s call on Tuesday to enact a replacement plan for Obamacare “very quickly," Republicans on Capitol Hill are reportedly now in disarray. According to insiders, Trump's statement to the The New York Times about wanting a repeal to happen within days took GOP lawmakers by...